Good Hosting Company For Website / Forum

[HHU]

Couple thousand members right now but plan to grow... also have a main site aside from forum which generates lots of traffic.

Right now I'm using Go Daddy.... But seems my site is lagging almost all the time, going really slow and my server stats are:

Dedicated Server (Why is it lagging and going so slow a lot of times?)

Operating System: Red Hat Fedora Core 2 Processor: Intel Celeron - 2.0 GHz RAM: 1 GB Total Disk Space: 120 GB RAID: None Firewall: None Bandwidth Allotment: 500 GB Control Panel Type: Plesk

Looking for somethin thats gonna be fast and reliable.

EDIT - LOOKING FOR A DEDICATED SERVER

[TygerTyger]

It's lagging and going so slow because you're on a single Celeron processor. Old hosting trick, you give someone oodles of resources they'll never use )500Gb bandwidth) then cut back on what they will (the processor). You have no firewall? At all? Really?

The people here love A Small Orange, as good a place to start as any I guess. But a general tip for the future: Don't host with a company that is primarily a domain registrar.

[HHU]

Yea I've been finding out about how bad Godaddy is, they give me poor customer support also. And no firewall right now....

The sites been up for a year now so something that I can move to and stay on for along time

[rh2004]

Are you looking for a new shared host? Do you know what your disk space and bandwidth is per month to direct you to hosts dealing with your usage.

[HHU]

I want high bandwidth and fairly good disk space.... at least 100 GBs....

Gonna be running radio through it and the site will grow rapidly soon so I don't want to have to upgrade servers... something good right away is what im lookin for..

Anythin between 120-200 dollars... or somethin else...

Just need a good company to get with ... Small Orange is all sold out

[David Lama]

100 GB diskspace? I think you may need a dedicated server

[HHU]

Yeah a Dedicated Server is what I'm looking for

[rh2004]

Any specific location?

Do you require support apart from the obvious reboots etc.
Either unmanaged, semi-managed, fully managed.

[HHU]

North America but no it doesnt matter....

What type of support... ? I've never had support, what do they help you with? DB Backups etc...?

it would be nice, but I've been managing without any support for awhile now... Godaddy has the worst support I've ever seen...

[rh2004]

My rank of data centres.

1. Softlayer (softlayer.com) Texas
2. GNAX (gnax.net) Atlanta California
3. One Wilshire (onewilshire.com)
4. ThePlanet (theplanet.com) Texas
5. Nac/15minuteservers (nac.net, 15minuteservers.com) New Jersey
6. Liquidweb (liquidweb.com) Lansing
7. Voxrox (voxrox.com) New York
8. Layeredtech (layeredtech.com) Texas
9. Interserver (interserver.net) New Jersey
10. Tailormadeservers (tailormadeservers.com) Texas


A few semi/fully managed companies.

1. Liquidweb (liquidweb.com)
2. Interserver (interserver.net)
3. Theplanet (theplanet.com)
4. Servstra (servstra.com)


Addon server management.

1. platinumservermanagement.com
2. jonesolutions.com


Security,

1. Rack911 (rack911.com)


Check out www.webhostingtalk.com (http://www.webhostingtalk.com) for offers and reviews.
Research thoroughly, lots of specials on WHT too. Try to avoid resellers

[deatheyes]

softlayer.com better Gnax ?

try www.peer1.com (100% uptimes network)
www.globalcompass.net (resell http://idologic.com/)

[rh2004]

I forgot Global Compass. I just put a few your going to come across many others when looking around. I could sit here all day listing different datacenters.

In terms these all are the best it gets in terms of network, price and support.

1. GNAX (gnax.net) Atlanta California
1. One Wilshire (onewilshire.com)

Softlayer new but doing everything right and are moving up the rank quicker than others

1. Softlayer (softlayer.com) Texas


DDOS migration protected networks, no ordering:

1. Gigeservers (gigeservers.com)
2. Staminus (staminus.net)


Others to look out for, no ordering:

1. Rackspace (rackspace.com)
2. Equinix (equinix.com)
3. EV1Servers (ev1servers.net)
4. Steadfast (steadfastnetworks.com)

[Ohiosweetheart]

what does that mean, no ordering?

[Nathan1977]

what does that mean, no ordering?

I guess no ranks

[alemcherry]

You can just upgrade to a p4 and stay with godaddy. They are not as bad as it is made out to be. If you know what you need, you must be having a good time with godaddy. I have a p4 with 2GB ram, running a forum with 500+ members online at peak and doing really well. The good thing is, its very easy to upgrade anything on godaddy. Just select it from control panel.

[burntire]

I have a shared go daddy account.
It works out well for my small forum, but the lack of external ssh access to the database makes a restore a major project. But I can't complain so far things are working well.

[Neo_the_hero]

Since i can see that i'm certainly not the only one who is struggling with finding a good and reliable host i'll suggest that someone should put up a link to a site where hosts are reviewed.

I have done a little bit of Googling myself on this matter, but i haven't really found a review site which i feel 100% trustworthy.

So does anyone know a good and trustworthy review site ?

[Jedito]

http://www.whreviews.com

[spazz191]

I am only a first timer of a few weeks here but when I first started I used Godaddy's economy package which to some is a no no but I guess that all depends on who you talk too. Well I found out that MY VBulletin board ran REAL slow.
I did a little research and people threw a lot of names at me, I ultimately (SP?) settled on a company called Devoted Host (http://devotedhost.biz/index.php). I know I only have a small board because I am starting out but the speed is real good and no down time yet and if there is, they tell you a week ahead of time.

My 2 cents for what its worth

[burntire]

I can't really say go daddy has been slow for me. I just don't like the lack of external access to the database. I use mysqldumper to backup and restore the DB with go daddy. It seems like http://realwebhost.net has some good reviews and VB support. Go Daddy isn't too bad if you have some computer knowledge. If you are new to all of this you may want to choose a host with better support and knowledge of VB.

[Ohiosweetheart]

I've been with Hostww (http://www.hostww.net) for almost 1 year. They've been extremely reliable, my board loads fast, downtime is next to nothing.

[encryption]

Webhostingtalk is the place to dig up info on webhosts. It's probably the most comprehensive place on the web I've visited and I've also used a few deals from there (which seemed to good to be true and they sucked).

So be sure to do your research before you snag another webhost.

Good luck

[burntire]

Ok I have been having trouble with Go Daddy Shared the past few days. It has been as slow as a turtle every morning. I am looking for a new host.

[burntire]

Just Switch to Real Web Host.
I am happy so far. Much better then Go(slow) Daddy.